Andi-

I LOVE passion fruit too. I have read that the yellow passion fruit (which is what I have seen in the VI) is in season in Spring through fall, but there is a break mid-summer. I have seen them falling from vines and ripe in mid-June. I make it into a sorbet to keep in th freezer of whatever villa I am in and add rum when I want to slush it into a frozen drink by the pool 😉 They fall when ready.

I am having a hard time figuring out whe papayas are ripe - they never seem to be ripe when I am there in summer. Do they ripen in fall? Anyone know?

Mango should fall from a tree when ripe. If you have to pick it off, it probably isn't ripe. Shake the tree and whatever falls should be ready.

Guava is another one I am trying to figure out. Last home I stayed in on STT had many guava plants around it, but they weren't ready (July 05).

Limes were ripe and yummy in July on my last trip....found a huge bush of them in the garden.

I am not a gardener and I have a black thumb....so all I can comment on is what I have observed.

Hey everyone, just wanted to warn you about mangoes. They are delicious, yes, but be careful not to get the sticky sap on your hands or face! Believe it or not, mangoes are related to POISON IVY (its true, google it and you will see) and you can have a bad reaction to the sap. It happened to me! After several years of living here, and eating mangoes, I finally had a reaction. My eyes and face swelled up really bad, it looked like I got punched. Fortunately I didn't have any breathing problems, and a steroid shot took care of the swelling.

Hmmmmmmm - my wife must do a lot of cooking with mango sap as one of the ingredients

I've had that same reaction to some of her home made chili

Nothin but luv

Steve

Passion Fruit must be in season now. A lady I work with has some growing in her yard and brought them into work and made juice for everyone. It was delicious. Today she made pumpkin juice which I thought would be weird,but turned out to taste a little like pumpkin pie.
Also, Mandahl Market has a sign out front saying they have fresh passion fruit juice. Forgot to look for it once I was inside. Guess I'll have to go back tomorrow.

Passion Fruit is in season now. I have them growing on my fence now.

When are sugar apples in season? I think I had one in september.

When is guava season?

On STX, both sugar apples and guavas are in season late summer to early fall. We have both on our property and if I recall correctly, that seems to be the season....but now that it is "winter" the summer seems so far away....so maybe my memory is a little off!

I first tried sugar apple in July so it must be in season during summer time. Nothing like an apple by the way. I got to try a new fruit today, but I've already forgotten the name of it. Starts with an "m" and looks a lot like a furless kiwi and tastes a bit like a sugar apple. Brownish pulpy fruit with seeds a bit like a watermelon. Sounds crazy, I know. The man who gave it to me said the trees are getting rarer and rarer and the fruit is quite coveted.

Did it have points at the top and bottom on the outside? Maybe it was a mamey. It has three seeds, though. Not like a watermelon.

That was probable a MESPLE. That is a local term. In the Dminican Republic and other places, I have heard it called ZAPOTE.

r norman...gold star for you!!!! The fella also told me what they call it in French and I can't remember that either. Thank you.

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